153 quotes found
“It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.”
“A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.”
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done.”
“Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'...”
“The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.”
“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget. ”
“People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.”
“Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. ...”
“There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.”
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
“He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.”
“He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.”
“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”
“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from...”
